22-year-old Belgian driver started strongly at sixth position in the reverse grid race
Alessio Picariello finished the bustling weekend in style with a grand double in the second round of MRF Challenge at Bahrain International circuit in Sakhir here on Friday night. (Representational image)
Sakhir (Bahrain): Alessio Picariello finished the bustling weekend in style with a grand double in the second round of MRF Challenge at Bahrain International circuit in Sakhir here on Friday night.
The 22-year-old Belgian driver started strongly at sixth position in the reverse grid race. He stormed into a quick lead and won his second race of the day. Earlier he had won the first race after starting from pole.
Picariello finished ahead of championship leader Pietro Fittipaldi in yet another dominant display and also clocked the fastest lap with a time of 2.02.251 minutes. The debutant driver made an excellent start to go second in the opening lap. British driver Sean Walkinshaw, who finished sixth in the first race, started from pole but dropped back allowing Matheus Leist of Brazil to take the initial lead. But Picariello continued his remarkable weekend to gain pace and accelerate past Leist.
Brazilian driver Fittipaldi (98 points) enhanced his championship lead after finishing second while Nikita Troitcki (86 points) kept pressure on him with a third place finish.
Colombian woman driver Tatiana Calderon, who had a podium finish in the first race, got off to a bad start. She made contact with Tarun Reddy who had a miserable day. Reddy, who had starting issues in the first race, tried to make amends with a quick start but had to retire prematurely after getting a fatal blow from Calderon’s car in the first lap.
Calderon herself dropped to seventh but recovered well to finish sixth and take her championship points to 84.
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